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Roll of Thunder Questions and Answers What does Mama do to the books for her seventh-grade class? - ✔✔Covers the offending inside cover with clean paper. What do Stacy, Cassie, and their brothe... rs do in revenge for the continual school bus episodes? - ✔✔Dig a huge hole in the middle of the road which damages the buss. What work does papa do and where does he do it? - ✔✔Lays track for the railroads in Louisiana. What crop did the Logan family raise? - ✔✔Cotton. Describe Mr. Morrison. - ✔✔Huge, tall and muscular with deep life lines and partially grey hair. In what state does the family live and in what year? - ✔✔Mississippi, 1933. List the four Logan children and their ages. - ✔✔Stacy 12 Cassie 9 Christopher-John 7 Little Man 6` How did the Logan family get their land? - ✔✔Grandpa Logan bought 200 acres in 1887. Why does Papa bring Mr. Morrison to stay with the family? - ✔✔To protect his family while he was away working on the railroad. What was the cause of John Henry Berry's death? - ✔✔Murdered by a white mob who set fire to him. Why must papa work at another job? - ✔✔Crop is not bringing enough money. What does the driver of the school bus like to do to the black children who must walk to school? - ✔✔Drench then with dust or mud. Why does Little man throw his schoolbook onto the floor and stop on it? - ✔✔He sees on the inside cover what the board of education thinks of black children. After TJ goes inside the Logan's house to get his cap, what do the children find him doing? - ✔✔He looks for the answers to a history test Mrs. Logan is going to give. Why does Stacey feel some resentment toward Mr. Morrison at first? - ✔✔He is angry because he feels that it is his job to protect the family while his father is away. Why does Cassie become so angry at Mr. Barnett? - ✔✔He ignores her, Stacey, and TJ, to wait on the white customers. What is the best definition of prejudice? - ✔✔A feeling of like or dislike for someone or something especially when it is not reasonable or logical. Mr. Morrison says he is not going to tell Stacey's mother about the children going to the Wallace's store. However, what does Mr. Morrison expect Stacey to do? - ✔✔To prove he is a man by confessing to his mother that he went to the Wallace's and then taking his punishment. Mama takes her children to see the Berrys. What point is she trying to make the children understand? - ✔✔To see how badly he was burned since the Wallace's did it, their store was no place for them to be. In what way does Mr. Wade Jamison, the lawyer, remind Cassie of her father? - ✔✔he always gave a straight answer. Why is Big Ma so proud of her late husband, Paul Edward? - ✔✔he brought the land and was hard working and did;t let people take advantage of him. Considering what has been happening between the races in their area, why does Big Ma make Cassie apologize to Lilian Jean Simms again? - ✔✔So there will be no trouble. Why does Stacey go to the Wallace's store? - ✔✔To find TJ and beat him up for getting Stacey in trouble during the history test. Why does Mr. Jamison decide to help the black people buy their food and supplies in Vicksburg? - ✔✔Mr. Jamison does not approve of what has been happening to the black people and wants to help them. Why do you think the Logan children were so exited about the books they received on Christmas? - ✔✔The books might have been the first ones the children received the belonged only to them. How does TJ trick Stacey into giving him the new coat? - ✔✔TJ makes Stacey think he looks bad in the coat, and he teases him. How does Mama explain Mr. Simm's behavior to Cassie? - ✔✔Mama tells Cassie that Mr. Simms believes that black people are not as food as white people; this makes him think he is more important. Whose car is actually in Stacey and Casey's barn? - ✔✔Uncle Hammer's. What does the Logan family e [Show More]

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